Improving Parallelism in Asynchronous Reading of an Entire Database

  • Authors:
  • Subhash Bhalla

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • HiPC '00 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on High Performance Computing
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

To recover from media failures, a database is 'restored' from an earlier backup copy. A recovery log of transactions is used to roll forward from the backup version to the desired time (the current time). High availability requires - backup activity to be fast, and on-line with ongoing update activity. Such concurrent generation of a database copy, interferes with system activity. It introduces blocking and delays for many update transactions. We study the performance of revised algorithms, to highlight the level of concurrent activity permitted by these algorithms, in parallel. Subsequently, the interference between global database copy activity and transaction updates is minimized based on a new algorithm for asynchronous generation of a copy of the database.